NURSE EDUCATION YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW

Abstract

The traditional orientation of the international organization of the Red Cross to support and raise nursing as a relevant factor in the achievement of goals and the transfer of work programs towards the protection and improvement of people's health, contributed to the Red Cross of Serbia developing its activity towards the increasingly complex training of health care personnel. The path was covered from lower schools for child care workers in republican centers, through a high school for nurses in Belgrade, to the eminent higher school for nurses - "College in Simina Street", the founder, together with the health service, planned to employ the first generations in key places in the teaching bases of the school and in schools for nurses, in order to ensure quality staff for raising the level of professional work and for inclusion in the processes of education and upbringing of generations of nurses to come. The Higher Medical School in Belgrade was founded in 1958 with two departments: the Department of Senior Nursing Technicians and the Department of Senior Sanitary Technicians. The education of senior nurses in Serbia until 1973 was carried out in two schools, namely the Higher School for Nurses of the Yugoslav Red Cross and the Higher Medical School in Belgrade. Already in 1971, the idea of integrating the Higher School for Nurses of the Yugoslav Red Cross with the Higher Medical School in Belgrade was initiated. Since 2007, the transformation of the school from higher to high has begun, and a study program of basic vocational studies for nurses has been created. This programme was accredited by the decision of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia dated April 30, 2007. The goal of the program is the higher education of nurses who should be qualified to work in the field of theoretical and practical nursing and to take on responsible tasks for the protection and improvement of health. The school's specialist study programs have a clearly defined role in the system of higher education of nurses, and they follow on from the basic professional studies. The new study program for Vocational master's nurse - clinical nursing lasts two school years and is realized through five modules within the framework of theoretical work, exercises, independent work of students, professional practice in health institutions, and the preparation of a master's thesis under the supervision of a mentor.